Waterdog's Group - Closed (Page 2)

Welcome Anya and Kristin

There is plenty of room.

I am off for my run in a bit and will post a "Group Weekly" when I get back.

Cheers

Welcome Jessica and Ken, plenty of room for you

Ken, there are a lot of great resources to support your goals here on BT as well as some really inspiring stories.

Down in the lower right hand corner is a link to "Toggle EMail" notification. When you enable this, it will send you an EMail every time the thread is updated

I have mine turned on but if the thread gets chatty, it can generate a lot of noise. 

Hope that everyone had a nice holiday. Our group is shaping up nicely and we should be about full very soon are Full 

Here is the current list of members:

Waterdog - Tim
MammaJenn3 - Jenn
VooDreu - Dreu
Baggyman - Chris
Barbara - Barbara
Gilligan - Sean
MtnGirlInCali - Erin
AATri - Anya
Kanders - Kristin
jgz_tarheel - Jessica
andiamo989 - Ken
HansenTracy - Tracy

Seems like we have a very well rounded group with some great goals for 2008. The idea of this whole thing is that we get to watch each other go through the process of training, preparing and executing our training and race plans. (Sort of our own little online Tri Club)

Which leads to the question of the week, what is your upcoming goal race and what training plan are you using. (If you have selected one) Having a goal race is a great way to stay motivated as we train through the remainder of the winter months. Of course a few of us have dual addictions and so have goal races for something other than the Triathlon and that's great too.  

Please tell us a bit about your goal race and if you are so inclined, also a bit about how your training is going this week. Reading others blogs is also a great way to see what others are doing, (And dropping an inspire or two) but it is nice to have it here in one place.

Oh, tomorrow I will put together a little block you can put into the goals area of your blog (Or Not) that will have hyperlinks to everyone else as well as a link to this thread.

Welcome Everyone

Wecome to our little group Tracy

I started a 13 week training plan for my goal race in March and it seems to be going well so far. I am recovering from Shoulder Surgery 4 weeks ago today and it will be a bit longer before I am back in the water.

I seem to have lost a bit of run fitness through my recovery but nothing that won't return with a couple of weeks of training. I have a speedwork session at the track on Thursday so I will get a better idea then. Seems like my bike fitness is fine though. (At least on the trainer)

My goal race is Ironman California 70.3 the end of March and will be doing Surf City Half Marathon as a tuneup. (A "B" Race that I will be training through) The plan calls for a goal pace ride of about 60 miles in Saturday before Surf City to get re-acquainted with what it's like to run 13.1 miles with a bunch of bike fatigue.

This is my second year doing both of these races and this plan and am feeling pretty good about what is about to come. (It is all a known quanity)

I wrote my training plan myself. I started with Pfitz 12/70 Marathon Plan and added in bike and swim volume. (2 Bike Miles to every 1 mile run, 100 yards swim to every mile run) A full marathon plan might seem like overkill, but this is all intended to set me up for Ironman Coeur d'Alene in June.

For those not familiar, Pete Pfitzinger is an Olympic Marathoner and exercise Physiologist and co-author of the book "Advanced Marathoning". I feel like I have been able to make some nice improvements in the marathon using his plans

Am also very hopefull the Ortho will let me back into the water soon

Here is an HTML Block that you can put into the goals section of your blog if you wish. It has hyperlinks to everyone's blog so you can easily find everyone as well as a link to this thread. Just select the block and copy it, then paste it into your goals section. (You will need to temporarily enable the HTML Editor for your goals section if you don't normally use it)

Feel free to modify the style of the table to suit your tastes. Of course, you can also just add everyone to your friends list

I will make a point to get to everyone's blog a few times per week as time permits and will also be posting a weekly thread here for everyone to enjoy and participate.

I did notice that a few of us have our blogs marked as Private. With this setting turned on, no one in the group will be able to see your training or drop inspires in your blog.

A couple of options:

1). Just make your blog public
2). Make your blog public to your friends list (And add all of us to the list)
3). Periodically post your training here in the group thread
4). Post your training in the Tri Forum Daily

Oh, and I know that only some of us have access to Chat, if the one's that do want to set a time during the week, I would be willing to kick off a session (Just for our group) to get together and compare notes on our training.  (The group thread may certainly be sufficient)

Good luck with your training everyone, and remember, you cannot keep it unless you endeavour to give it away

Pardon the lurk ... Tim and I seem to be on tag-team lurking in each other's mentor threads ...

Just wanted to return the favor and congratulate you all for making a wonderful commitment to your health, goals and racing and helping others to do the same in this group! Also, you have OUTSTANDING selection skills in mentors.

I would have dived into this group without a moment's hesitation had I not already opened my own group, and even more so after looking at your introductions. Great team!

Thanks Yanti        

Please stop by any time

OK, one more added to the group. Willow will be along in a bit to introduce herself

Here is the updated member table:

Waterdog...you are so wonderful for letting me sneak in by the hair of my chinny chin chin

Just the skinny...

My name is Amy and I am a 38 year old mom to three girls aged 13,10 and 6. My husband and I make our home in Livingston, Montana. In the winter I am a ski patroller at our local hill, Bridger Bowl. I am out right now as I just had my second knee surgery for 2007 on December 28th. This one was a pretty simple meniscus "ectomy" (not sure how to spell that) and some major cartiledge clean up. I am already walking without a limp and hope to be skiing by Feb. 1st.

Tri history...Did lots of cycling...doing  five centuries the summers of 04 and 05 .Spring of 06 my road bike looked kind of boring to me, so I added some running and then some swimming. Talked a girlfriend in to doing a tri with me..an Xterra Sprint here in Montana and we had so much fun we did an Oly the next month- that was summer of '06.. Then I had surgery on my right knee in Feb. of 07 and just ran a lot for rehab, but didn't do any tris. I have done several 5K's and this last September ran my first 1/2 mary. (in between surgeries)

I am an avid skier, yoga nut and mountain biker too...but would like to do some more tris if my knees allow.

Today I weighed myself and was up to 143...which is the biggest I have been for about a year and a half. I am hoping it has mostly to do with christmas and surgery...but it inspired me to get motivated and BT has always helped me with that.

Immediate Goals: Rehab my knee, start yoga, get on my trainer, get in a pool...eat right and stay motivated

Thanks for letting me join this group!